PS 289B: Research Methods in Race-Ethnicity Politics Scholarship

Winter 2017, Thursday, 12:30pm - 3:20pm, Humanities A30

Course Description:

This is the second course in the REP Field Seminar sequence. This course will review, dissect, discuss and debate different research methods that are used in REP scholarship and assess the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches and methodologies. Students will be expected to write a research paper, and give a presentation, using one of the methodologies we read during the quarter, and to defend that approach. Each week, students are expected to complete all of the assigned readings and to bring one example of a research project you could implement using that week’s methodology.

Readings:

Each week there will be required readings from the assigned scholarly journal articles. Readings should be done for the day they are assigned. Readings are all accessible online via JSTOR, Google Scholar, or from the UCLA library. The complete, week-by-week reading list is posted below.